Farmer's Market

My name is Liga Eagles. I'm from the Espanola Valley. I've been here seven years. We're here on Tuesdays and Saturdays from six in the morning to 12 noon. We're trying to bring back stuff that you don't see anymore. That's why I've named at least a unique produce. We carry the English piece, which you don't see very often anymore. We carry it in the fresh, we carry it in the dry, and we carry it in the split. We carry green chili powder. We carry the red powder from Chimile. Good place to come to. These stores, they don't have anything that's halfway worth eating. Basically, what we have available this time of the year is a seaweed and fishy mulch in with micronutrients and other growth stimulating products. In our own orchard of 35 trees, we've been able to cause the trees to go into a second growing cycle. We're the Masias farms. It's Elias and Mary Masias and our farms in the South Valley. And we grow garlic and onions and beets and carrots and green beans and black eyepiece.

Our grandchildren have grown up with the market. When they were little, they were sleeping in the little baskets under the truck and here they are. They're big girls now. They bake bread to sell here at the market. And their math is coming along beautifully. They're learning so much through the market. And I like to meet new people. And my favorite part is giving the change to the people. My name is Heidi Eleftherio and I am from Corralis and that's where I grow my status. And we also have a growers market out in Corralis on Sunday mornings from 9 to 12. And I pick status because I like flowers and status are really good because they don't get pests on them. Grasshoppers don't eat them. My name is Ursula Voile and I am organized, I organize the Corralis growers market. I make pickles, chutney, chutney, relishes, preserves and jams. I'm Evelyn Lozak and I farm at the Curtis Farms and it's been in the family for 106 years now.

And it's very hard to maintain that much property in downtown or right in the middle of Corralis because we've got developers all around that could develop the land for a lot more than what we can grow beats on. But because we have too many people on acres of land that can't afford the equipment to maintain their own property and therefore we get bugs, loose animals, their livestock. You can just forget it, I've had over 200 geese and ducks killed and chickens. And when they leave fields unattended and leave them follow, it does increase the insect population. When growers are bringing what they grow, I feel there's a real sense of independence from the marketplace, from large supermarkets that aren't offering the quality of food that I think people deserve. I believe very strongly that it supports the land and it's people supporting each other for the best nutritional food,

the ones that are the most viable and the ones. And by the way, those are calitas. They're grown wild and they have a real good strong flavor versus the regular spinach that you buy at the store. And gangly, just take it and strip it back. Don't go, you don't go, you know, work yourself today. Because it isn't going to make any difference in these stems or tender enough. If you see that the stem is too long, then just, you know, take it off. But these tops are always wonderful. The only thing that has survived for me this year is the basil, the tomatoes. I've pulled over 70 plants up because of the virus. And I have just a little bit of chili, but I'm afraid it's going to take that. So darn grasshoppers are even eating the sunflowers and the zignas. It's been a bad year. I can't keep, get a variety of things because of everything dying. I told the Lord this morning he was a bum farming partner. I'm Mary Garcia, cord of a middle name.

And I'm from Pagarito here down the valley. And we've had a large farm. My dad used to raise a lot of vegetables all the time. He had about eight acres, all vegetables. Used to be a truck farmer. Well, my name is Rachel Seiss. I'm a board member of the Triscoll Enrights Council. And this morning we're here promoting healthiness within the South Valley through our growers market. We have a variety of products here, everything from herbs to be neon and fresh fruits and vegetables. And we're trying to promote a sense of community, a sense of healthiness. And we have an intergenerational project that involves youth and the elders within our community. Basically, what we're trying to do is preserve the traditions of our community and our culture in using the knowledge and the wisdom that our elders have. And by having them share that with the youth of our community,

along the lines of growing and how to treat the Earth and just pass on the knowledge that they have onto the youth in order to get the youth more invested in their own community and in their own culture. We're very concerned. We keep hearing over and over, I think, as a community, as a whole. Not just a Triscoll that there's not enough water to sustain the growth that Albuquerque is anticipating. And we just need to keep the water available to continue our farming and our traditions here in Albuquerque.